Nurburgring: Adam Carroll race one report

Podium in Germany for Britain's Adam Carroll
A tremendous drive from Adam Carroll saw him gain his first
podium of the season. The 23 year old finished a strong 3rd stealing the
position in the final corners of the race. After starting from 7th...

Podium in Germany for Britain's Adam Carroll

A tremendous drive from Adam Carroll saw him gain his first
podium of the season. The 23 year old finished a strong 3rd stealing the
position in the final corners of the race. After starting from 7th on the
grid it, the Racing Engineering driver led for several laps before
pitting last on lap 16 of the 35 lap race. He emerged in 7th position
but that is when the race really begun.

A fantastic battle with Nelson
Piquet Jr saw the gap fall to just 0.1 between the two drivers for many
laps. Just after Adam passed Nelson, the Brazilian suffered a blow out
and crashed heavily into the tyre wall. Adam didn't settle for
4th though and continued to push, eventually passing Jose Maria Lopez on
the final sector of the circuit, just meters before the chequered flag.

"I am delighted to get my first points and podium of the season.
Hopefully this is the start of things to come. The car felt really good
and after the problems I've had until today, the team has worked so
hard to get us to this point," said Carroll from Portadown in
Northern Ireland.

"After the pit stop, I came out and saw I was
behind Nelson and I thought this is going to be interesting! And it
certainly was. I really looked after my tyres and was able to push the
whole race. I wasn't that quick at the start of the race but by the
end the balance and everything was perfect and I was really on the
pace."

Tomorrow Adam starts from 5th, due to the top 8 finishers
positions being reversed. But he's never afraid over overtaking and
despite the Sunday race being a shorter sprint race with no pit stops,
last year Adam started 22nd and finished 2nd.

"Let's hope for
more of the same tomorrow. I'm collecting pretty good memories of
this place!"